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We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

Prince Charles

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.
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Conclusion Failure Human Ideal Jump Quick Suffering
There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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Goodness People Start
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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Average Knowledge Position
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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Existence Feeling Myself Time
One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
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Change Climate Conflict Reason Terrorism
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
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Complete Man Teaching
It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature’s capital
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Capital Economics Evidence Important
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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Best Farm Result Talk
Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
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Himself Humility Measurement Puzzle Right Thinking
Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
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Difficult Economy Face Warm World
Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
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Forest Nature Planet System
It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
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Dependent Easy Ourselves Scare Sick
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.
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Children Clever Society Straight
There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.
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End Evidence Goodness Land Leaving People
If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don’t want them – if I’m still alive by then – to say, ‘Why didn’t you do something about it?’, when you could have done.
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Grandchildren Thinking Worry Yourself
Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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Bed Day Fashion Myself Position Rose
I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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Dimension Evaporation Time World
My Rainforests Project has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.
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Alive Economy Element Myself Project Rains Tree Worth
A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
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Approval Design Development Feeling Home
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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Cover Globe Myself Time
Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Born Brother Ourselves Religion Sister
A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce – like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
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Average Build Frustration Office Remember Yourself
I think we’d be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that’s going to last for ever and ever and ever.
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Expectation Fools Imagination Myself
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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Eyes Father Myself
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
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Appearance Calculation Cheap Food Myself
All I’m saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end environmentally and everywhere else for the food that is produced in a particular way.
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Food Myself Paid Price Production Way
I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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Age Deep Generosity Greatness Myself Recover Thinking

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